• silverlose@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    I think when Julius Ceasar was assassinated it turned the republic into an empire, IIRC. Might need more people to go to avoid some shit like emperor Vance.

    Sigh… I dunno anymore man. What insane times.

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      2 days ago

      Beware the Ides of March, huh?

      If I recall, Shakespeare’s Caesar says to Antony:

      *Let me have men about me that are fat,

      Sleek-headed men and such as sleep a-nights.

      Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look,

      He thinks too much; such men are dangerous.*

      Trump certainly has plenty of fat men around him. I just thought it was a coincidence rather than a strategy but maybe he has some well-read people in his security team? Nah, on reflection, I think it’s just a coincidence.